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Orchestrator Web Service This web service allows custom applications, third-party
tools, and other System Center items such as Service Manager, to connect to Orches-
trator and to interact with runbooks.
Deployment Manager The Deployment Manager allows you to deploy integration
packs, Runbook Designers, and runbook servers. You use the Deployment Manager to
import and deploy integration packs that you've downloaded from the Internet.
MORE INFO ORCHESTRATOR
You can learn more about Orchestrator at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/
hh237242.aspx .
Runbooks
Runbooks are collections of linked activities that perform a procedure. You build runbooks
in Orchestrator by dragging activities from integration packs to the designer workspace. For
example, the runbook shown in Figure 1-3 uses two activities. The first activity, named Moni-
tor Service, checks the state of a specific service on a specific computer and triggers if the ser-
vice is in a specific state (started, stopped, or paused). The second activity, named Start/Stop
Service, allows you to start, stop, pause, or restart a service. When the runbook is deployed,
it will be triggered when the monitored service is in the state specified in the Monitor Service
activity. After being triggered, the runbook will perform the task defined in the Start/Stop
Service activity.
FIGURE 1-3 Simple runbook
This example is very basic. When creating Orchestrator runbooks to perform sophisticated
automation tasks, you are likely to use multiple activities and include conditional branches,
 
 
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